Tape Dealers

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About

An experimental 3D platformer immersing players in the teenage apocalyptic space saga. Play as the queer goth underground Rock Star in their quest to collect a complete block-chained album as the ultimate endgame challenge.

Impact

Creating a game-based platform to distribute music through a compelling character arch will expand audience in hope to support marginalized artists who shaped music and art trends but lack funds for essentials like health insurance.

Progress

Formed an exceptional team of groundbreaking musicians. Funded the crafting of the web-based story arc in 2021. Developed most 3D characters and UE4 previews. Created a 2D animated cinematic. Produced 3D printed game models.

Team

For the past ten years, I've immersed myself in a unique underground community, where I had the privilege of meeting some of the most incredible individuals. Inspired by Gorillas and GTA, I want to create a way to get my friends payed and heard.

Funding

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Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.

Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/tape-dealers
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Not recovered: creator, tags, links, funding, drives, submissions, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.